Alias Finale - Sucked with Some Good Moments

I need to vent about the Alias finale. Spoilers galore follow.

The finale had so many flaws it was really annoying. Time was screwy throughout. They flew from LA to mexico to rescue Marshall and Rachel in a few minutes. They did the same thing over and over again. The opening of the whole team spread throughout the world taking pictures of the "twelve" of Profit 5 was cool until I realized that how did they know who to take pictures of without having seen their pictures before? But Jack posing for a tourist shot and not smiling was great. Syd shows up to kill mom without a gun. There was lots of stuff like that. It's like these are the only agents in the world and they got to where they needed to be instantly just to stand and talk for a while. Ugh.

New guy Tom sacrificing himself was ok, but it just pointed out how little I cared about him or Rachel. They were brought in as filler while Syd was pregnant and while they tried to develop them they never really did well enough to fit in with our heros. It was a riot how everyone (Sark, Sloane) commented upon seeing him that Vaughn seemed to be alive.

Nevertheless some stuff was good old Alias fun. Marshall saying "That was cool, I mean Empire Strikes Back cool." The various flashbacks of major events in Syd's life were cool. So we know that Rimbaldi was after immortality, that makes sense from the whole series. And the ending for Sloane was perfect. He achieved immortality but was buried alive, eternally. And that Jack did it too him was also perfect. Jack sacrificing himself was touching. He was perhaps the best character in the series. It took me years to be comfortable thinking he was good and not bad. Glad I was right on that. Glad also to see Syd and Vaughn happily ever after on a beach with two kids and Marshall happy too. Odd to see Dixon as deputy director, he gave up management to get back into the field and he had enough bad experiences with the CIA and Sloane.

Sark having second thoughts seemed odd. I guess he would be against global genocide but was that really the plan? Just seemed like DC and London blowing up to me. Doesn't seem like the end of nature. And what did the globe do? Sloane put it in the alter thing and got immortality, what was Irina going to do with it? If she was going to put it in the alter why didn't she go there instead of having the thing delivered to her? And this seemed to have nothing to do with the virus that ended last season or with Sydney being the key to anything.

So they resolved the characters, they got their just desserts, but they didn't explain the Rimbaldi thing and that's bad. Really bad. Makes me very worried about Lost. Well another season pass I can delete from my Tivo.